The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
Two Brakemen Found Robbing Freight
Cars on the Georgia Pacific Railroad
How Former Resident of Cuth-
bert Made Up with a Man with
Whom He Quarreled Fourteen Years
Ago.
GEORGIA.
There is a gentleman in Dawson who is
living with his fifth wife.
Mr.. Dupre's factory in Gainesville makes
about 100000 matches per day.
Rome is just now building more houses
than at any period in her history.
The machinery of the cotton factory at
Gainesville has arrived and is rapidly being
set up
The Town Council of Perry has fixed the
tax rate for 1887 at s. so on 81 900, reduc-
ton of 81 80.
Jasper Superior Court will be held on
the fourth Monday in September instead of
the fourth Monday in October.
An Atlanta boy robbed his mother and
stole his dead brothers shoes. He was
arrested, but his mother was permitted to
take him home.
Baptist church organized in Gainesville
soon. The sum of S497 so has been sub
scribed for building purposes
1t is reported that a few days ago the
guard at Bondurant & Joplin's camp went
to sleep while on duty, and that four con-
victs stole his gun and escaped.
The contract to renovate the court house
at Townsville was, on Monday, let to
Eaves & Chase, by the county commission
ers. The price TO be paid for the repairs is
$10,57S
Work on the new court house at Isabella,
is being pushed very rapidly, and it is
thought that the building will be ready for
occupancy by the October term of the Supe-
rior Court.
James Harmon was around with petition
few days ago at Ty Ty to raise money to
build a new Methodist church, five miles
north of that town, to be known as Damas-
Gus church.
The season at New Holland closed last
Monday. The late cool weather caused so
many of the guests to leave that the mana
gers concluded that it would not pay them
to keep open longer.
The National Board of Underwriters of
New York offer reward of $500 for the ar
rest of the incendiaries who burned the
stores of MessrS. Watson 81 Lewis and w
M. Taylor & Co., in Hawkinsville on Aug
8 last.
A citizen of Dawson remarked to another
recently that a man of that county was a
rascal and ought to be in the penitentiary
and now suit for SANDER is probable.
Two lawyers have been employed to prose-
cute the case.
At Eastman, Thursday, w. T. Bryant,
whipping boss at Camp Gresston, under in
dictment for criminal relations and adultery
with female convict, was acquitted by the
jury trying his case. This was the only in
dictment found.
Macon Telegraph: Judge Adams says be
is the only Judge of the Superior Court in
this circuit, for the present, and he thinks of
calling special term ON Monday for the
purpose of emptying the jail, passing some
orders and appointing few more bailiffs
who are to proceed at once to gather up iu-
rors.
Some of the Oldest citizens say they have
never experienced SO dry time in Appling
county as the present, some wells that never
failed are getting very low, and a COM
plant is made by some who own fish ponds
that there is great danger of their fish dy-
ing from the effects of the sun on the little
water in the ponds
Mrs Elisha Merritt, of Gainesville, who
is now over so years old, has an iron pot
which has been in the possession of the
family for many generations 1t was
brought from Holland, long before the revo-
lutionary war, and had been in the family
for several generations before that Family
tradition makes its age at least 800 years.
Newton Bragg and wife, of Dawson, have
been confined to their beds by severe at
tacks of typhoid fever for the last two
weeks During that time they have been
without anything to eat and their destitu-
ton wes 80 great that, on last SATURDAY. a
subscription was made in the city for their
relief. Sad to relate, they buried little
child of theirs on last Saturday.
A meeting of the members of the bar was
held at Townsville Monday and it was
agreed, in view of the fact that it would be
impossible to hold Thomas county's court
In the court house, to ask Judge Hansell to
Postpone the fall term till the first Monday
IN December. Judge Hansel agreed to the
suggestion, therefore the October term will
be held as above stated, the first Monday in
December
A. L. Bond, an employee of the Amoskeag
Mills, near Eastman, met with a fatal acct
dent on Tuesday afternoon last. He was
working at the edger III the planning mill,
running a plank through, and in striking
the rollers it rebounded, hitting the unfor-
tunate man in the stomach, causing a very
slight abrasion of the skin, but injuring
him so seriously, internally. that he died
Wednesday.
The non-union men who caused the strike
day all resigned Thursday, and the men re-
turned TO work. The non-union men all
went to a contractor who employees good
workmen, whether they be union or non
union men. The lumber establishment that
worked sixty hours per week reduced the
time to fifty-eight, and now things are all
serene and no more trouble is feared.
The Marshal of Albany has arrested Aaron
Kent, who went up from Dougherty county
under conviction of assault with intent to
murder, made on negro at the Vason place
in West Dougherty. His sentence was for
five years, but he escaped from loves
camp after serving only nine months of
that time. He has the rest of that term to
serve, besides the four years sentence
which he viii probably get for escaping.
Hall county sportsmen will probably find
quail scarce this season. The excessive rains
and overfiows came on about the time the
birds We're nesting and only a few of those
covies that came off early survived the
freshets and protracted wet weather Since
the rains, however, bob White" seems to
have determined to try it again, and even
at this late day many new nests are found.
The birds this season will either be very
early or late ones, and will therefore not be
as plentiful as usual